16 OUR DICK. 



undeniable quality ever got mixed up 

 with the rowdy crowd the poor chaps in 

 the Pound commonly are. 



When two men, as it sometimes hap- 

 pens, claim the same dog and go to law 

 about it, it is the dog's testimony that 

 decides the case. Here, in a San Fran- 

 cisco court, this very thing happened 

 only the other day. A pettifogging law- 

 yer may badger a man in the witness-box 

 till he forgets his own name; but there 

 is no lawyer smart enough to muddle a 

 dog's wits so that he will not know his 

 master. The case of dispute about mas- 

 ters I have just spoken of, however, was 

 an easy one to settle compared with that 

 of Dick vs. John Doe, Richard Roe, and 

 parties unknown, to determine own- 

 ership. This cause was on trial for a 

 long time in our home court before the 



